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Freakfest 2011: trend persists, arrests down were often punctuated by rioting, looting and police using tear gas Although police reported across State Street—most recently more arrests from Saturday in 2005. night’s Freakfest on Monday, The 2011 event was a far cry bringing the total from that. The to 32, statistics 32 arrests made Arrests only confirmed Saturday night, 25 2009: that Freakfest 2011 offenders were cited was one of the most and released, while 4 arrested subdued Madison were sent to jail. The 2010: Halloween in incident report listed recent memory. 3 people as being arrested P o l i c e sent to either the 2011: Department Public hospital or a detoxiInformation fication center. arrested, Officer Joel Revised citacitations issued tion figures put DeSpain said authorities were the total numskeptical that ber of Freakfest arrest figures citations at 46. Attendance would decrease According to 2009: further from 2010’s DeSpain, citations total of 43, but the can surpass the number of citanumber of arrests 2010: tions Saturday left made, as individuofficials surprised. als can be issued “[The 32 arrests] more than one 2011: really, I think, speaks citation. volumes about how “Our arrests this event has really were behaviorturned around,” said based. It really has to DeSpain. do with how people Before the rebranding of fes- are conducting themselves on the tivities in Madison as the officially- street,” DeSpain said. “The majority sanctioned Freakfest event in 2006, freakfest page 3 Halloween celebrations in Madison
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Senate decides to allow weapons on floor, prohibit in gallery The state Senate approved rules Tuesday that allow concealed weapons on the Senate floor but prohibit them from being carried into the gallery during session. Individuals with permits will also be allowed to carry concealed weapons into Senate offices unless senators post signs on their doors saying otherwise. Mark Kauzlarich/the daily cardinal The Senate Committee on Concealed weapons will be allowed on Senate Organization approved the the Wisconsin state Senate floor. rules along party lines, with three Republicans voting for and two Democrats voting against the rules. which would allow concealed weapons The Department of Administrain both the Assembly floor and gallery, tion announced Oct. 28 that conceaif approved by the Assembly Commitled weapons would be allowed inside tee on Assembly Organization. state buildings including the Capitol DOA Secretary Mike Huebsch after Gov. Scott Walker said execusaid concealed weapons would be tive offices within the Capitol would prohibited in the Supreme Courpermit concealed weapons inside. thouse and the Capitol police station The state Assembly is also in the within the Capitol because of existing process of approving their own rules, state law.
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Curriculum specialist Yuntong Yan leads a Greater University Tutoring Services’ Conversational English group Monday. Yan said the program needs more English tutors.
Need for English tutors not met By Aarushi Agni The Daily Cardinal
Last year, Hannah Goodno showed her Conversational English class episodes of “How I Met Your Mother,” “Modern Family” and sketches from “Saturday Night Live.” Afterward, the group discussed the shows and talked about idiomatic expressions the characters used, among other exercises. “They’d ask questions about why a certain joke was funny,” Goodno said. “It makes you think about what you consider normal, and what you think is something everyone could just ‘get,’ and you realize it’s more influenced by culture than you ever realized.” Goodno, a lessons instructor for the Greater
University Tutoring Services’ Conversational English program, said the experience gave her an opportunity to step outside her comfort zone. “You have to think more about your culture in a different way because you’re teaching it to someone else,” Goodno said. Despite attempts to reach out to students, GUTS’ CE program faces a chronic shortage of English tutors. The organization has tried sending mass e-mails to the student body, to people within the GUTS organization and to high-level language students, but all attempts proved ineffective, according to Yuntong Yan, GUTS’ Conversational English Curriculum Specialist. The only requirement to become a tutor is to be a native
English speaker. Yan has led the CE program, which has trained international students in the cultural aspects of conversation in English-speaking culture since 2010.
“You have to think more about your culture in a different way because you’re teaching it to someone else.” Hannah Goodno lessons instructor GUTS Conversational English
The international student population has grown steadily in the past five years, explained
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Student Judiciary: SSFC waiver invalid By Anna Duffin The Daily Cardinal
In a mostly symbolic decision, the Student Judiciary ruled Monday a student government committee’s process for student groups to apply for over $250,000 in funding is invalid. The waiver groups were required to submit sparked controversy when the Multicultural Student Coalition turned it in past deadline, making the group ineligible for its requested $1.27 million in funding. SJ Chief Justice Kathryn Fifield said the SJ ruled the waiver invalid because the Student Services Finance Committee did not implement it properly.
“Because it wasn’t developed over a long enough period of time and groups were only given a week to complete it, it can’t be considered an established process and is therefore a violation of due process,” Fifield said.
“I feel like SSFC pretty much won except the waiver was invalid.” Sarah Neibart SSFC Chair
But SSFC Chair Sarah Neibart
said the group can not receive funding because the committee ruled it ineligible in October. “I felt like SSFC pretty much won except for the waiver was invalid,” Neibart said. “However, in my opinion, that really doesn’t affect our process.” Fifield said the SJ did not take MCSC’s ineligibility into account when making the ruling. “Because MCSC has been denied eligibility, they’re still ineligible. This decision has no effect on that,” Fifield said. “For all practical purposes, the only things that could be considered in this case were things that happened before
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“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”